glim.
Brightness; splendour.
Meaning & usage
Brightness; splendour.
A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
An eye.
A pair of glasses or spectacles.
A look; a glimpse.
Gonorrhea.
Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.
To brand on the hand.
To illuminate.
To see; to observe.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glimō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.
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